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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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